On the 15th of August 1945, the Japanese empire capitulated after the United States threw atomic bombs on Hiroshima and ...

Tomiichi Murayama, Japan's prime minister from 1994, was best known for the "Murayama Statement," an apology delivered on the ...

His televised address as prime minister, delivered 50 years to the day after Japan announced its surrender, set a marker for ...

Former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, who died Friday aged 101, was best known for his landmark apology for Japan's World ...

The rising concerns threaten to unravel academic ties between the U.S. and China even as the world's two largest economies ...

At the Museum of Veterans in Vilonia, there is a framed copy of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender. It was a donation to the museum by an old sailor who was there for the proceedings some 80 years ...

Today marks a significant moment in history as Beijing observes the 80th anniversary of Japan's WWII surrender with a grand military parade in Tiananmen Square. President Xi Jinping stood at the ...

YOKOHAMA, Japan — On the 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II, the names of more than 1,000 troops who died as prisoners of war were read aloud Tuesday during a memorial ceremony at ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! National Archives curator Jessie Kratz gave C-SPAN's American History TV an exclusive look at the Japanese Instrument of Surrender that secured an ...